Description

Double album on blue vinyls with gatefold cover. Limited 500 copies

In 1996, New Jersey’s Solace rose from the ashes of Atlantic Records alumni Godspeed, a new entity driven by metal riffage with anthemic vocals and a crushing doom underbelly. Solace issued slabs of ferocious, driven heaviness every few years, beginning with 2000’s Further. This was followed by 13 and a pair of Eps before culminating in Solace’s 2010 milestone, A.D. The titanic offering was the band’s most fully-realized achievement, a record called, “a six-string maelstrom” and “a guitar album through and through — even by the standards of this genre,” and which made the iTunes Top 10 Metal Records of the year alongside High On Fire. With various members battling personal demons, the next few years saw Solace draw back and regroup. But with a reconstructed line-up and returning stronger than ever, Solace return with The Brink in December of 2019. Embracing a NWOBHM dual-guitar attack more completely than ever before, the 11-song album likewise maintains a death grip on the band’s trademark volatility and sonic roots. As the world stands at the edge of another uncertain decade, we can all rejoice as the weighty, exquisite bombast of The Brink reasserts the dominance of New Jersey’s godfathers of dirt metal glory.

Track list:
1. Breaker Of The Way
2. Desert Coffin
3. Dead Sailor’s Dream
4. Waste People
5. The Light Is A Lie
6. Crushing Black
7. Bird Of Ill Omen
8. Shallows Fade
9. The Brink
10. Until The Last Dog Is Hung
11. Dead Sailor’s Reprise